Welcome!
The department Life Cycle Engineering (GaBi) was founded in 1989 within the Institute for Polymer Testing and Polymer Science (IKP) at Universität Stuttgart. In 2006 the department has changed to the Chair for Building Physics.
Key activities of the department GaBi is the Life Cycle Engineering and analysis of products, processes and services concerning their environmental, economical, social and technical aspects throughout the whole Life Cycle to be used as basis for decision support and decision making.
Main research within the department is focused on
- Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
- Life Cycle Working Time Environment (LCWE)
- Sustainability Assessment environmental / economic / social (LCA / LCC/ LCWE)
- Design for Environment (Eco Design)
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
- Material Flow Analysis (MFA)
The development of methods for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) and the integration of social sustainability assessment is strongly oriented on international cooperation. As extension of Life Cycle Assessment according to EN 14040/14044, Life Cycle Engineering also integrates costing aspects into the assessment and balances technical properties of considered products and process systems.
In precise projects life cycle related questions are associated with main issues of technical feasibility, capacities infrastructures and substance flow management.
The method of Life Cycle Engineering has been applied to numerous projects. Well over 200 person years of project experience has been gained so far. Customers are from industries as well as from public institutions.
The gained Know How is taught to students of technical disciplines. The engineering background, the extensive project experience and the successful linking of research with practical application in industry leads to high qualitative, reliable and customer-oriented solutions. The developed software solutions and databases are worldwide applied in industry practice, research and consultancy in the field of sustainability.
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